European Respiratory Society (ERS) International Congress 2018
The ERS International Congress 2018 specifically highlighted the importance of environment in respiratory health and focused on the need to personalise medicine in the respiratory arena. Key topics in respiratory medicine from across the spectrum of disease areas including TB, lung cancer, chronic and acute respiratory failure, sleep breathing disorders, interstitial lung diseases, pneumonia, cystic fibrosis, COPD and asthma, amongst others, was covered in the Congress programme.
ABSTRACTS
Frequency of cough versus dyspnoea as the first recorded symptom of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Osteoporosis onset in patients prescribed ICS for COPD: matched cohort study
Association between ICS therapy for COPD and diabetes onset and progression
Characteristics and treatment of patients with comorbid COPD and heart failure
EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS
- “Getting to the heart of COPD management: time for personalisation” by David Price, Claus Vogelmeier, Martin Möckel, and Wisia Wedzicha [Webcast]
- “The asthma patient journey: what more can be done?” by Marc Humbert, David Price, Liam Heaney, and Kim Lavoie [Webcast]
- “Myths and truths of inhaler technology” by Henry Chrystyn and David Price [Webcast]